Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,011 Articles Published

Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Scarface (83 version), read more Heat, The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, any film noir

Likes: Movies, LP's, James Bond, true hollywood memoirs, The Bret Easton read more Ellis Podcast, every sixties british pop band, every 80s new wave band - in fact just generally all eighties songs, even the really shit ones, and of course, Tom Friggin' Cruise!

Review: Galveston

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A terminally ill thug (Ben Foster) is double-crossed by his boss and sent into a deadly ambush. He survives, rescuing a young woman (Elle Fanning) in the process. Marked for death, the two of them must now run for...

Review: Mid90s (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A thirteen year old boy growing up with an abusive older brother and a somewhat absent mother finds himself drawn to a group of older skateboarders. REVIEW: As far as directorial debuts from A-list actors go, MID90s is...

Review: The Hate U Give

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) leads a double life. By day, she’s a popular student at a mostly white, privileged prep school, but her home life is much different, with her and her family living in a mostly black, inner...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Deep Rising

Posted 8 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

Bad Times at the El Royale (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: On an evening in 1969, four strangers, a priest (Jeff Bridges), a singer (Cynthia Erivo), a traveling salesman (Jon Hamm), and a rebellious young woman (Dakota Johnson) check-in to the run down El Royale hotel, which straddles the state...

Review: Bad Times at the El Royale

Posted 8 years ago

Review: The House That Jack Built

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Jack (Matt Dillon), a prolific serial killer, reflects on his crimes while on the way to hell. REVIEW: Always provocative, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT is pure, un-distilled Lars von Trier. Non fans need not apply and if by...

Review: Beautiful Boy

Posted 8 years ago

BEAUTIFUL BOY was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2018 coverage. PLOT: A grieving father (Steve Carell) tries to help his beloved son (Timothée Chalamet) recover from a crippling crystal meth addiction. REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL BOY may go down as...

Venom (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), a down-and-out former journalist, finds himself infected with an alien symbiote after investigating an evil biotech company. The symbiote, named Venom, quickly warms to Eddie as his new host, and the two team-up to prevent...